Jens Lyng Jens Lyng i(A20191 works by) (a.k.a. Jens Sorensen Lyng; J. Lyng; J. L. Lyng)
Born: Established: 16 Apr 1868 Hasle,
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Denmark,
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Scandinavia, Western Europe, Europe, ; Died: Ceased: 25 Oct 1941 Birchip, Charlton - Donald - Birchip - Woomelang area, North West Victoria, Victoria,
Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: 1891
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BiographyHistory

Jens Lyng was born in Hasle, Denmark, in 1868 and arrived in Australia in 1891. He was for a period secretary to the botanist Baron von Mueller and he served with the Australian armed forces in New Guinea in World War I. Lyng edited the New Guinea Government Gazette and later founded the Rabaul Record. He was the editor of a Scandinavian newspaper Norden, published for 40 years from 1896, and he also published several works of fiction in Danish at the beginning of this century. His other works include Our New Possession (Late German New Guinea) (1919), Non-Britishers in Australia : Influence on Population and Progress (1927) which won the Harbison-Higinbotham Prize from Melbourne University, and The Scandinavians in Australia, New Zealand and the Western Pacific (1939).

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Notes

  • Author writes in these languages:ENGLISH, DANISH
  • For details of works by this author which do not appear in AustLit, see A Bibliography of Australian Multicultural Writers by Sneja Gunew et al (Geelong: Centre for Studies in Literary Education, Humanities, Deakin University, 1992).
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